Police escorted speech-goers to the private book club event inside, at one point shoving an identified reporter forcefully, pushing an older man to the ground and stepping on sitting demonstrators. Similar scenes greeted Cheney the following day in Calgary.

“People around the world are going to see images of the Vancouver Police Department roughing up peaceful demonstrators when they should have seen images of [police] hauling Dick Cheney off to a prison cell. It’s lucky nobody was seriously hurt,” said stopwar.ca’s Derrick O’Keefe, one of the protest organizers.

The crowd of about 300 — spurred by support from the world’s second-largest rights group, U.S.-based Human Rights Watch — demanded Cheney’s arrest for war crimes and torture. Cheney is in Canada promoting his new book, In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir, in which he defends authorizing simulated drowning known as “water-boarding,” other “enhanced interrogation techniques,” and policies rendering U.S. terror suspects to torture overseas, as in the case of now-exonerated Canadian citizen Maher Arar.

The proposed EU tax on financial transactions, which could raise €57bn a year and force banks to make a “contribution back to society”, is expected to face fierce opposition from George Osborne.

Within minutes of José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European commission, setting out plans for a transaction tax – often known as a Tobin tax or Robin Hood tax – the chancellor’s office made it clear that the City would not tolerate an EU-wide tax on transactions.

American police state in full force as NYPD Counter Terrorism Unit unleashed on peaceful Occupy Wall Street protests.

The New York City Counter Terrorism Unit has been filmed watching the peaceful Occupy Wall Street Protests.

The officers, part of the the New York City Counter Terrorism Bureau which has a police force bigger than the FBI, were filmed monitoring the Occupy Wall Street protesters by independent journalists who have been forced to do the job of the corporate controlled media which has largely ignored the wall street protests.

We reported earlier on protests at the Chicago Federal Reserve, and there was word last night of protests planned for Boston. Now it’s London, and it sounds like it’s going to be pretty big – Probably much bigger than New York protests.

The Federal Financing Bank (FFB) has released its August report. This is the bank that has provided the $500mm to Solyndra. Under normal conditions this monthly report would go unnoticed (except by folks like me). This time might be different. I would expect that a few members of Congress are going to jump all over this. They should. The FFB is continuing to lend taxpayer money with virtually no oversight.

This is the most important Ratigan clip since his on-air meltdown. You will hear that Geithner and Summers defied orders from Obama and took over White House policy, instructing Attorney General Eric Holder to back off Wall Street criminal prosecutions.

So now the Money Power, “the Usurers,” dominate all governments, as they always have done in all past history. Mr. Davis says truly, “The Money Power does not (now) Seize the man in person; it prates loudly of liberty; but it Seizes all the Resources of life and the agencies of commerce, and then bids men live or die as best they can. It has established a slavery less merciful than chattel slavery, rather, it has changed the different conditions of the people in slavery, so as that all are a hundred times more oppressed, and life is made a hundred times less worth living or preserving than it was forty, or sixty, or a hundred years ago,” condemning all labor regardless of age, sex, race or color to death or permitting life on the hardest possible terms.

“I have spent over 20 years fighting Wall Street, General Motors, health insurance companies, the whole lot of them. A lot of that has been alone or with just a very few people. It warms my heart to see all of you here.” – Michael Moore

Wall Street bankers and corporations have caused havoc to the global economy and there is a need for an organized campaign to put an end to their dominance over the global economy, a financial journalist tells Press TV.

Either the YesMen have infiltrated Italy’s biggest, and most undercapitalied, bank, or the stress of constant, repeated lying and prevarication has finally gotten to the very people who know their livelihoods hang by a thread, and the second the great ponzi is unwound their jobs, careers, and entire way of life will be gone. Such as the head of UniCredit global securities Attila Szalay-Berzeviczy, and former Chairman of the Hungarian stock exchange, who has written an unbelievable oped in the Hungarian portal Index.hu which, frankly, make Alessio “BBC Trader” Rastani’s provocative speech seem like a bedtime story.

Debt-ridden Greeks have been clashing with police, as their Parliament approved a new – and deeply unpopular – property tax. RT talks to Godfrey Bloom, who’s a British Euro MP for the UK Independence Party.

Senior officials from the EU and IMF are expected in Greece to study its progress in reducing its debt. They’ll then decide whether to release further bailout cash. It follows angry protests on Tuesday after the government passed the most unpopular round of austerity measures yet.

“Today we received unconfirmed reports that over one hundred blue collar police refused to come into work in solidarity with our movement. These numbers will grow. We are the 99 percent. You will not silence us.”

Look at the sea of red for the commodities. All of it is due to the US dollar moving inversely against the metals. All of it is due to the actions of the Federal Reserve and the other countries acting for their own benefit. These are pure macro trends at work.

Even in these tough economic times, Obama supporters are still paying upwards of $36k per person at campaign fundraisers. Protestors have lined up outside these events to express their frustration with the economic situation and disapproval with Obama’s administration. Peter Schiff, president at Euro Pacific Capital, explains where this frustration originates from.

Psychologist and social scientist Dacher Keltner says the rich really are different, and not in a good way: Their life experience makes them less empathetic, less altruistic, and generally more selfish.

In fact, he says, the philosophical battle over economics, taxes, debt ceilings and defaults that are now roiling the stock market is partly rooted in an upper class “ideology of self-interest.”

“We have now done 12 separate studies measuring empathy in every way imaginable, social behavior in every way, and some work on compassion and it’s the same story,” he said. “Lower class people just show more empathy, more prosocial behavior, more compassion, no matter how you look at it.”

2000 years of enslavement and global war by the money-junkies and you just now figured this out?

Just about everywhere you turned yesterday the mainstream media (MSM) was talking up the good news in latest Case-Shiller Home Price Index report…

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Germany and America were on a collision course on Tuesday night over the handling of Europe’s debt crisis after Berlin savaged plans to boost the EU rescue fund as a “stupid idea” and told the White House to sort out its own mess before giving gratuitous advice to others.